Breitbart.com reports: “Israelis in Europe have been warned to ‘categorically avoid’ being visibly Jewish at cultural and sporting events for the next month in the wake of a ‘pogrom’ in Amsterdam last week, yet finding an Israeli football match to watch is becoming increasingly difficult.

Since the October 7th terrorist attacks against Israel, a strange phenomenon has befallen Israeli sport. Home games aren’t played at home — the sport’s governing body, UEFA, says it is too dangerous for players to visit — and increasingly, away games aren’t played at their host nations either.

The possibility of having Israeli footballers and fans visit foreign states is now discussed in terms like ‘disproportionate risk’, ‘security concerns’, ‘politically sensitive’, ‘high-risk’, and ‘fear of disturbances’. European football once had a real hooliganism problem, but sophisticated policing and social engineering through the game itself, which developed over many years, has all but removed the issue. Yet the security concerns today are not over thuggish fans but from the violent rejection of having visiting citizens from the Jewish state grace European cities at all…”